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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII's Most Dangerous Spy

By Sonia Purnell

The End of Silence: Women and Priesthood

By Karen Armstrong

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

By Natalie Haynes

The Sorrows of Mattidia: A New Translation and Commentary

By Curtis Hutt, Jenni Irving

Born Survivors

By Wendy Holden

The Sisters of Auschwitz: The true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory

By Roxane van Iperen

A Force To Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute

By Jane Robinson

A Force To Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute

By Jane Robinson

A Divine Rage: The Careers and Controversies of the Pankhursts

By Martin Pugh

The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement

By Melanie Phillips

The British Women's Suffrage Campaign, 1866-1928

By Harold Smith

Emily Wilding Davison

By Lucy Fisher

Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties

By Rachel Cooke

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martinez

Women & Film: Both sides of the camera

By Kaplan, E. Ann

Women in the 1920s

By Horn, Pamela

Understanding Women's Magazines: Publishing, Markets and Readerships in Late-Twentieth Century Britain

By Gough-Yates, Anna

Dickens' Artistic Daughter Katey: Her Life, Loves and Impact

By Lucinda Hawksley

Women and Madness: Incarceration of Women in Nineteenth-century France (Feminist Perspectives)

By Ripa

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women

By Robinson, Jane

Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

By Robinson, Jane

Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

By Obama, Michelle

The Pankhursts

By Pugh, Martin

Emmeline Pankhurst (Routledge Historical Biographies)

By Bartley, Paula

Women in Christianity: Medieval Period 1000-1500 CE v. 2

By Malone, Mary T.

Women Who Went to War 1938 - 46

By Eric Taylor, Felicity Hill

Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story

By Tyrer, Nicola

Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject

By Davies, Carole Boyce

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

By Tomalin, Claire

Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England

By Leong, Elaine